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local councils. As I said in the House yesterday

supplementing

in reply to your question, the report of the

working party on local administration in Hong

Kong is at present being discussed in the

territory. Once local councils have been

established there it should then be possible

to use them as an electoral college to elect

representatives to the Hong Kong Legislative

Council. I understand that the Governor of

Hong Kong already has this possibility in mind.

Once local councils have been established

there and are operating satisfactorily it might

be possible to use them as electoral colleges

sending representatives to the Hong Kong

Legislative Council. Some thought has been

given to this possibility both here and in

Hong Kong. But it must be regarded as a

development in the long term: the first

essential is to establish sound and

efficient local councils.

JUDAH HART)

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